Anna Belle Hindenlang has joined Celadon Books as publicist. She was previously publicity assistant at Random House. At Random House Children’s, Monique Razzouk has been promoted to junior designer and Katrina Damkoehler to assistant art director. Kerstin Wolf has joined D4EO Literary Agency as literary agent. She was an agent in training at the Booker Albert Literary Agency. Founder of UK car manual publisher Haynes Publishing Group, John Haynes, 80, died on February 8 following a short illness. Bookselling Further to an early January report that McNally Jackson would remain in their Soho space after all, owner Sarah McNally confirms signing a lease renewal for […]
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Carly Watters has been promoted to senior vice president and senior literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency. Fiammetta Giorgi has been appointed as head of rights for Mondadori in Italy. Claudia Scheu, who previously held the position, will act as a consultant for the publisher. Alexander Roesler has been promoted to editorial director at S. Fischer Verlag in Germany, starting on March 1. Christopher Paul Carey has joined Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. as director of publishing. He was senior editor at Paizo, a publisher of roleplaying games. Cat Zappa has joined Dreamscape Media as executive director of content and strategy. She was […]
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The ABA’s board has recommend Jenny Cohen of Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, OR to join the board of directors for the first time, and Kris Kleindienst, Chris Morrow, and Bradley Graham were all nominated for additional, three-year terms. Per their usual protocol, ABA vice president Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC is due to move up to a two-year term as ABA president, and Graham is nominated to serve as ABA vice president/secretary. Jennifer Murphy has joined the American Psychological Association’s Magination Press as assistant marketing manager. Most recently she was marketing coordinator at Harper Collins. Author […]
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Victoria Verhowsky has joined DK as adult marketing manager. Previously she was marketing manager at Rutgers University Press. At Sterling Children’s, Eve Adler has joined as senior editor. Previously she was senior editor at Penguin Random House. Suzy Capozzi has been promoted to executive editor. Brett LoGiurato has joined Wharton Digital Press as senior editor. He was previously executive editor at Business Insider. Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency now handles rights for House of Anansi Press in Spain, Latin America, Portugal and Brazil, as well as Groundwood Books (excluding children’s picture books). Forthcoming Bestselling author and xkcd creator Randall Munroe‘s next book HOW TO: Absurd […]
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Simon Green has joined Abrams Artists Agency to lead company’s book and publishing division. Green was at CAA, where he started the book department in 2009, until last spring. The agency says Green’s hiring “reflects [their] commitment to growing the company with distinguished agents as the agency continues to expand its roster of both agents and clients.” (Steve Ross, who started the book division for Abrams, created his own agency last fall.) Claire Roberts has founded her own literary agency, Claire Roberts Global Literary Management. In addition to author representation, the company also handles rights for a “select group of publishers and other literary agencies […]
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Liz Kelsch has been promoted to director of marketing for nonfiction and mystery at Sourcebooks. Picks Reese Witherspoon‘s book club pick for February is Jasmine Guillory’s The Proposal. Distribution Rizzoli New York will distribute Pavilion Books, Pavilion Children’s, Portico, Pitkin, and the National Trust via Penguin Random House Publisher Services, starting July 2019. Previously these lists were distributed by IPG. Bookselling A new bookstore, Still North Books, will open in Hanover, NH in the space that belonged to Dartmouth Bookstore, which closed last year after 146 years of operation. The new owner Allie Levy, who previously worked in the marketing department at HMH, says […]